Primary and high schools in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have engaged people from legal circles to be associate headmasters, intensifying legal education.
Sun Dongsheng, an official with the autonomous region's department of justice, said that Xinjiang encourages schools to hire officials from justice departments, lawyers and policemen as associate headmasters, giving pupils a high quality legal education.
Apart from the legal education materials issued by the state, Xinjiang had compiled a set of teaching materials based on its special regional and ethnic situation in the languages of the Han, Uygur, Kazak and Mongolian ethnic groups, said the official.
Wang Guoyou, hired by a high school in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang, is the police station head of the city's Dongshan District.
He made up legal education materials by selecting criminal cases he had handled, giving lessons to the pupils with his own experiences.
Sun said that 80 percent of Xinjiang's 8,071 primary and high schools had associate headmasters responsible for legal education, and as a result, juvenile delinquency had been remarkably reduced in the past year.
(Xinhua News Agency February 14, 2004)
